Hope For The Future - Paul McCartney

Paul In Space

When you think of alien attacks, the last humans in the universe and video games, you don’t normally hear Paul McCartney singing in the background. But nope, Paul wrote a fantastic epic piece about hope for the extremely popular game Destiny (a fantastic game by the way). When I had finished the game, the song started during the end credits and the voice sounded very familiar, and sure enough I saw his name slapped there at the bottom to the song. Hope For The Future takes from the main theme of Destiny and stays true to the rest of the soundtrack. This is once again, like Live or Let Die, is a fantastic demonstration of Paul’s ability to organize and write beautifully for a huge orchestra and band. From the deep cellos in the beginning to the brass instruments in the bridge, the song is a rich and full piece. But interestingly, he uses electric and acoustic guitars to really carry the song and its power, it is pretty amazing and impressive how much power the acoustic guitar has in the softer parts. His lyrics and vocals seemed cheesy at first, but they really do grow on you, the video is cool but is odd to see him in the midst of the game characters, I would recommend just listening to the music and skipping the video itself. A great song and it's awesome to see Paul really expanding his musical reach.

Originality:8.5

Instruments:9.4

Vocals:8.0

Longevity:7.1

Red Score:8.25

Live or Let Die - Paul McCartney

007's Favorite British Singer

One of the most legendary songwriters of all time, Paul McCartney, is coming out with an enormous, 4-disc compilation album called Pure McCartney later this week. Paul has been writing music for many many years and this week I’m gonna look at his music, why it’s amazing and listen in awe his versatility and creativity over the last 40 years. To be specific, it will be music that is primarily performed and written by him in his personal career and or with the Wings. I’m going to skip anything Beatles related, because I’m bound to have a week about them later. Now onto the song! Live or Let Die was written as a James Bond song for the movie also titled Live or Let Die. The song is fast paced and has that strong orchestral edge that most Bond songs do, but the song is split up into call and response sections with very McCartney sounding parts. When listening to the song, the difference in the parts are blatantly obvious and almost little jarring, but refreshing for sure, especially for Bond music. I am pleasantly surprised at how well Paul was able to integrate his signature style into the Bond format of heroic, spy music. This is one of the best examples of McCartney’s abilities in composing full arrangements of powerful music, that he is not just limited to just rock anthems. Come back tomorrow to see one of Paul’s newest song that was made for one of the most popular video games of last year, Destiny.

Originality: 8.5

Instruments: 8.7

Vocals: 8.5

Longevity: 9.3

Red Score: 8.7